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Meek,
perfons
fubjeEls
for Chrift
to
comfort,
i
8
they
are fad, and
difconfolate,therefore
in
the forefront Chrift
is
defined
by the Father
to
preach good tydings
to the meek,
and
therefore
they muff
needs
lAe.
blefled that the Father
hath
fentChria
unto
to
preach
god
tydings.
And then
Thirdly.
Surely
they are bleí
%d,
for this
meek
-
neffe,
or
ability
to moderate
and
order
anger,
God
himfelfac-
counts
it
his
own
glory,
therefore
it
muff
needs put
a
glory
upon thofe
that are meeke, in Evod.
34.6. Where
God
would
fhew his'glory,
this
is
among
the
reft
:
The Lord, the Lord
God,
mercifull
and
gracious,
long
fufferinx, 'that he
is
able
to
moderate
his anger
whenhe
is
provoked
:
and
to be
long fuf-
feringwith
men, that's
the
Glory
of
the.Father..
Yea
and
it
is
the
glory
of
Chrift,
in
the
45.
Pfal:
4.
you
have
a
prophetical P
fame
of
Chriít,fetting
him
out
in
his
glo-
ry and obferve, when
the
holy
Ghoft
would
fet
out Chrift
in
his
glory, what
he faith
of
him,rhou
art
fairer
then
the
children
of
men,
grace ispouredintothylips,
therefore
Clod
bath
beefed
thee
for
ever :
Gird thy
fword
upon
thy.
thigh O
moll
mighty, with
thy
glory and thy
majeftjy,
and
in
thy
maJefiy
ride
profperonfly
becaufe
of
truth
and
meeknefs.
-
Here's
the
nlajefly
of Chrift
fet
out,
and his
glory, and
meeknefs
is
one
thing that
is
nude
that
puts
the
glory and
majefty upon
Chrift, Therefore
BlefJed
are
the meek.
And
then
for
the
-holy
Ghoft,
you know
that
he appears
in
the
likeneife
of
a
Dove,
which
(they
fay)
(lath
no'
gall,which
is
an
embled of meekneffe,
fo
that the meek
have
that that
is
the
glory of
the Father,the
glory of
the
Son, and
the
glory
of
the
holy
Ghoft
upon
them,
Ble
fr'ed
then
are
the
meek,
Again
further;Blefed
are
the meeke:for
meekiiefs
it
is
an
ar-
gument oftheir ele&ion, it's
a
fruit
of
Gods
eternall
love
to
them,
of Gods electing
love, where ever
there
is
true Chrifti-
an
meeknefs, we
may
conclude
that that
foul was
thought upon
from
all
eternity
by
God,
clewed unto eternal( life,
in
the
3
Co/of.
i
z..
(you
that
are acquainted
with Scripture,you cannot
but
know
thefe
things) Put
on
therefore as
the
deft
of
God
(
holy
and
beloved)
bowels
of
mercies,
1¿ndnefo,
humble
nefs
of mind,
meeknefs
and
lon
fu
f
ferina,
as
the
eleíi of
god, that
as if.
the
A-
B
ba
pale